“But they’ll play independently and then they’ll look for one another.”

The 32-year-old, of Bexleyheath, South East London, told how she and husband Daniel, 37, never thought the girls would survive after being told by doctors two thirds of conjoined twins are stillborn or die soon afterwards.

Angela, who also has a daughter Lily, five, added: “Every time we went for a scan, we were worrying whether there would still be a heartbeat.

Fears: Joined as babies (Image: PA)

"They weren’t making any plans to give birth to them. I couldn’t see us getting this far. I am over the moon. It’s so lovely seeing them doing normal things when you didn’t even expect to have them.

“They’re crawling around, trying to stand up. They’re very bubbly, very happy and very determined.”

Rosie and Ruby were separated by surgeons at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Angela said taxi driver Daniel “adores having all of his girls at home”. She added: “He loves playing with them.”